Comment on text 3

The following statement is from the third text:

“The dads I know don’t want careers, we just want a job and a life, and we want to have them at the same time” (ll. 91-94).

In the following section, we have outlined some points worth considering when you comment on this statement from the text.

It is interesting to observe that, in his statement, Rafael Behr makes a clear distinction between the words “career” and “job”:

He implies that the “career” automatically excludes having “a life”. What Behr may want to suggest is that, for men, having a career today unquestionably means giving up on your passions and your personal life, including your family.

The statement correlates with the piece of advice given by his cousin:

In the text Behr describes ...